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Two Books I Love
Mar. 8th, 2005 10:39 amI just read:
Carmen Dog by Carol Emshwiller, who Ursula Le Guin calls "the most unappreciated great writer we've got." It's about a world in which women are turning into beasts and beasts are turning into women, and features the struggles of Pooch, a transforming Golden Setter who dreams of being an opera singer. It's so sharp and funny and brilliant about gender, motherhood, science and the pose one takes when leaping off a burning building into the arms of acrobats.
and, then
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, who also wrote Housekeeping, which I loved with a passion. Gilead is meditative, serious, and it took me a couple of tries to engage with it, but its gifts are so deep and so essential to what feels like the work of my own life that I'm more alive for having read it. It's beautiful. In the 1950s in Iowa, a Congregational minister at the end of his life writes to his very young son.
Carmen Dog by Carol Emshwiller, who Ursula Le Guin calls "the most unappreciated great writer we've got." It's about a world in which women are turning into beasts and beasts are turning into women, and features the struggles of Pooch, a transforming Golden Setter who dreams of being an opera singer. It's so sharp and funny and brilliant about gender, motherhood, science and the pose one takes when leaping off a burning building into the arms of acrobats.
and, then
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, who also wrote Housekeeping, which I loved with a passion. Gilead is meditative, serious, and it took me a couple of tries to engage with it, but its gifts are so deep and so essential to what feels like the work of my own life that I'm more alive for having read it. It's beautiful. In the 1950s in Iowa, a Congregational minister at the end of his life writes to his very young son.